Mikhail Kvetsinsky

Mikhail Kvetsinsky (3 January 1866-31 March 1923) was a Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Russian Army and the White Army during World War I and the Russian Revolution.

Biography
Mikhail Kvetsinsky was born on 3 January 1866 in Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire, and he joined an artillery brigade of the Imperial Russian Army in 1891 after graduating from the Nikolayev Academy of General Staff. He served in the general staff before rising to an army command in April 1917 during World War I, fighting against revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution. In October 1917, he failed to put down an uprising by the Bolsheviks in Kiev, and he fled to Norway during the Russian Civil War. He died in Lillehammer, Norway in 1923 at the age of 57.